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The banded lapwing (Vanellus tricolor) is a small to medium-sized shorebird, found in small parties or large flocks on bare ground in open grasslands, agricultural land and open savannah. Lapwings belong to the family Charadriidae (plovers) and sub-family Vanellinae. It is native to Australia and in the past considered as a game bird for hunting. Population estimate is 25 000 - 1 000 000. Other names include banded, black-breasted, brown flock and plain plover. It is a medium-sized shorebird with short dark purplish legs and a dull red tibia. 15910
The adults of Tenthredo temula are up to 10–13 millimetres (0.39–0.51 in) long. The thorax and head are brilliant black, clypeus, labrum and the base of mandibles are yellow, the abdomen is black with a transversal yellow band and a yellow tip. Femora and tibia are black in males, respectively black and yellow in females. The wings are brown and transparent, with brown veins and black stigma.
They can be encountered from May through late summer feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers from various plants (mainly family Apiaceae, as Anthriscus sylvestris, Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), but also on Rubus fruticosus and Crataegus monogyna. Larvae develop on plants of the genus Ligustrum.
A male sun fly on bramble leaves at New Ferry Butterfly Park. This is the commonest species of 'footballer' hoverfly in the UK and can be recognised by frons dusting that stops short of the ocellae, a black bar right across the mid abdomen and just the botoom third of the hind tibia dark.
Half-time at the cricket and Birdie Bush Stone Curlew (Burhinus grallarius) relaxes a bit. She looks over to see how Barry Bush Stone Curlew, her partner, is going. She's surprised to see he hasn't been watching and worse, looks like he's about to doze off, as he's now sitting down.
It wasn’t Barry's favourite pastime, so he thought he'd get comfortable and think about dinner and/or a nap!
Fun facts on Leg structure - check out how the bird on the right has bent its legs:
* Ankle Joint (the "visible knee") - The prominent, central joint that bends backward is the equivalent of a human ankle or heel.
* Knee Joint (hidden) - The actual knee joint is situated much higher up the leg, close to the bird's body and is typically hidden by feathers. It bends forward, just like a human knee.
* Leg Structure - Birds stand on their toes. The long bone below the body and above the visible "knee" is a fusion of the tibia and some upper foot bones (tibiotarsus), with the long bone below the "knee" being the fused lower foot bones (tarsometatarsus).
This unique skeletal structure, with an elongated ankle, makes their legs appear to have backward-bending knees to human observers.
Simple huh! 🤔 I'll bet you wished you'd never asked that question!
New Farm Park with a cricket match being played in the park behind.
Marika climbing at Vallorcine, in knee high stockings and black dress, 2 months after her operation to rebreak and set her tibia and ankle.
Here's a nice robber fly which I managed to snap two shots of close enough to be able to focus stack them into a single image, but with a little sweeter depth of field.
Unfortunately, my phoo isn't enough to tell the exact species, but the green eyes, the hairs bent forward on the neck and the black thighs and red tibia at least tell us this is a member of the genus Neoitamus - which is made up of three species in the Swedish fauna.
An older photo of this species, better than those I have already published. Probably female.
A species quite similar to H. trivitatus, but with a black strip down the nose and generally darker and more colorful. Females also resemble those of H. hybridus, which have darker hind tibia (only a base is pale) and somehow different abdomen pattern.
The most common tiger hoverfly in my region, however, I am still waiting for a better catch.
I'm wondering if this is the ring-legged earwig Euborellia annulipes. It has a global documentation.
Legs are a pale brown and have a noticeable dark band around the middle of the femur, or occasionally the tibia. Hence their common name.
Earwigs are omnivorous insects that perform beneficial roles such as cleaning up decaying matter. They use their pincers for defense, manipulating food and fighting for mates. Many species consume pollen, contributing to pollination.
Around 15 mm in length.
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The giant valanga (Valanga irregularis) is Australia's largest short-horned grasshopper, growing up to 9 cm in length.
They are solitary, non-swarming insects found in the northern regions of our country - in the States of Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and extending down the east coast in to the mid to northern areas of New South Wales.
Identification for this specimen is confirmed by the rear tibia being the same colour as the rest of the leg and the tibial spines being orange to red with black tips.
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Scientific name: Chrysopilus auratus
Wetenschappelijk: Chrysopilus auratus
Chrysopilus cristatus, is a species of 'snipe flies' belonging to the family Rhagionidae.
This species is present in most of Europe.
The flies are 6 to 8 millimeters long. Similar to Chrysopilus erythrophthalmus, but slightly smaller than this species. The femora are dark grey.The tibia and metatarsus are yellow.
Oliver has a spiral fracture of his tibia. It can't be splinted or fixed surgically, but it hasn't displaced and he's being really smart about staying quiet and not putting weight on it. The latest set of radiographs show that it is healing, hopefully he's on the uphill climb. He's an amazing pony, and lucky to have been a fighting chance.
Hoverfly feeding on hemp agrimony at the Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB reserve. I initially identified this as Helophilus pendulus, but later realised that the well-exposed hind tibia are over 50% black - on pendulus this is more like 30%. Quite a subtle difference!
A male marsh tiger hoverfly (Steve Falk) or woolly-tailed marsh fly (iNat) on ragwort in Chester Zoo Nature Reserve.
This is one of three UK species in the Helophilus genus commonly called 'footballers' because of their striped thorax and is less common than the sun fly (Helophilus pendulus). It can be identified by its mostly dark hind tibia, lack of a complete black band across the middle of the back and dusting all the way up to the ocellae on the haed.
I think
I put it on the Facebook "Insects/Invertebrates of Ireland" group and the experts there were happy that it was indeed a male Bombus lucorum.
The colours look right but I was worried that the tibia seems like it had a proper corbicula on it ...but apparently they can look like that on males
Arachtober 10th. A lovely male with the distinctive long palpal tibia, as long as the cephalothorax. Seen on the dam at Grwyne Fawr.
The Halloween Bash was bound tibia great time!
No heads rolled, though some members of the band looked a bit femurliar.
;)
We're not sure, she said
Or maybe that's what I read
Way over my head
"Definitely Condylostylus caudatus group
Clear, unmarked wings in both sexes. Most caudatus group spp. have a very long bristle near tip of mid tibia. Branch of M right-angled. Mid basitarsus usually with dense row of curved bristles. Males generally with dark femora; yellow tibiae, with hind tibiae darkened at the tips; some with a tail with conspicuous long hairs.
C. nigrofemoratus should have a dense row of bristles on the mid-basitarsus, the last two segments of the hind tarsi swollen, and with tail hairs that aren't particularly long. I checked the full-size image on iNat. It might be nigrofemoratus, but I'm not sure. I can't see any definite tail hairs from this angle (that area is blurred), but I'm not certain the hind tarsi has two swollen segments, though they look as though they could be - might need slightly more resolution. They can be tough to see."
… Alison Place, 15 March, 2023 - 5:02pm
Taken on 30th April this year 2018 in my garden.
Still struggling to capture a good image of the female which is almost totally black apart from the orange scopal hairs on the hind tibia.
I've been trying to catch one warming herself up early in the morning like I've sometimes seen the males doing but no luck as yet.
One thousand and eleven metres above sea level it was quite windy at the edge of the sheer mountainside. The spacious concrete balcony, bordered to the south by a plate glass wall five feet high offered views to tempt the angels. Never before had we been in a place quite like it. The sense of elation doesn’t translate into mere words. Forty miles inland along fjords so unimaginably deep and here we were on the mountain at Hoven, watching over valleys shaped by another era, which were guarded by impenetrable mountain walls that disappeared into an icy haze so it became impossible to be certain where the land ended and the sky began.
Standing against the glass wall as the wind tried to lift me from the ground, I fired the camera almost continuously while the strap flapped in fury against my neck, seemingly trying to break loose and fling itself over the side. Almost as if it had secretly met with the local lemming community during the night and made plans. I clung to the camera body grimly in my thick winter gloves like it was the last life raft and the ship was going down. This was not the time to lose my precious gear over the side, despite its apparent desire to end the relationship before I was ready to upgrade. It was only our second day in Norway, and I certainly didn’t want to be trying to source a very expensive replacement in Molde the following afternoon. Especially on a Sunday. We were told Norway closes on a Sunday. Just imagine for a moment that you took a stack of images like this and then lost the raw files before you could burn them onto your hard drive because Thor was in a bad mood. The very thought of it makes me feel quite unwell.
And when the wind wasn’t trying to cause havoc, there was the snow to contend with. Ali was far more accomplished than I at tottering over the deceitful white ground. What would be worse? A broken lens or a fractured tibia? I didn’t know the answer to that. The sensible answer would be the latter I suppose. Although I did qualify that with the word “sensible,” and let’s face it, we were shuffling about on top of an ice covered mountain. “Take a picture of me standing next to that!” she instructed, pointing at something akin to an enormous inverted horseshoe sculpture near a second, smaller viewpoint that I’d been gradually edging towards across a treacherous ice rink. But she didn’t have a Lemming 28-400 attached to a Lemming Z7 Mark 2 hanging around her neck, an expensive assembly that seemed awfully keen to throw itself in the general direction of the fjord, one thousand and eleven metres below where we stood. I mean I could have put it back in the bag before we began the short but perilous trek from viewpoint one to viewpoint two, but that’s multitasking. And we all know that multitasking is a thing we males struggle with in early adulthood, and then develop increasing levels of incompetence at as we sag into middle age. I duly took a phone snap of her, looking quite relaxed beside the giant horseshoe, and then shuffled inelegantly and very slowly towards the second viewpoint. Here at least, the camera would splat gently into the snow at my feet if the wind could somehow go one step further and whisk the strap over my head as it had been threatening to do for much of the last hour. I sat on the low wall, resumed my battle with the flying camera strap, and zoomed once more into the mountains.
As we picked our way back across the snow to the relative safety of the cleared footpath, I skated an involuntary yard or two when a patch of ice suddenly appeared beneath my left foot. At least by this time the camera was safely in the bag. Miraculously I stayed on my feet, but over by the viewing gallery, the judges flashed their scorecards in front of the spectators, and they clearly weren’t impressed by the Cornish contestant. Only a one from the Norwegian for technical merit, although the Swede awarded me a quite generous two for artistic impression. The lemmings registered much higher scores. Well of course I made that bit up. I’d have been lucky to get a zero from anyone, such would have been the long list of deductions for total buffoonery. But at least the camera was safe, and so were those precious raw files. No medals for winter sports, but the pictures would more than make up for that later.
I think with the curved hind tibia! My first hover of the year, seen last Friday.
Upton Magna - Shropshire
L'éristale tenace ressemble à une abeille, ou plutôt à un faux bourdon. Mais elle est inoffensive. On la reconnait aux 2 taches jaune-orange sur le deuxième segment abdominal, à sa tête large et plutôt triangulaire, à ses gros yeux et ses antennes courtes. Le thorax est noir, recouvert de pilosité. La face est claire, avec une bande faciale noire très visible. Les pattes postérieures sont courbes, avec les fémurs et les tibias dilatés.
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The tenacious eristal resembles a bee, or rather a drone. But she is harmless. It is recognized by the 2 yellow-orange spots on the second segment of the abdomen, with its broad and rather triangular head, with its big eyes and short antennae. The thorax is black, covered with hair. The face is clear, with a very visible black facial band. The hind legs are curved, with femurs and dilated tibias.
At the flea market. Vive la Commune! Some months ago the same guy was selling a wooden leg. Yet that skeletton has two tibia... hum...
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Helina depuncta. (Female).
Length; 6.75mm – 8.25mm.
Found; Males most commonly seen in May to June but females can often be seen until November.
UK Status; Common and widespread in England and Wales but probably under recorded due to difficulty to positively identify.
Habitat; It breeds on cow dung so most commonly encountered around cow pasture.
Grey/brown with fine stripes on the thorax and no patterning on the abdomen. It has red femora and tibia, with yellow-tinted wings and darkened cross-veins. Often found sitting on foliage in the Summer and early Autumn.
Similar to Helina impuncta but among other characteristics there are no elongated presutural acr bristles while H. impuncta has 1 to 3 pairs.
Adults of this family can usually be separated from other small flies by the strongly humped thorax, well-developed coxae, and often spinose legs, but identification within the family between genera and species generally requires close study of microscopic features such as subtle differences in wing venation and variation in chaetotaxy and genitalia. (in Wikipedia)
Dans la famille des Mycetophilidae, les adultes se distinguent des autres petits diptères par leur thorax très bossu, leurs hanches très développées et leurs tibias souvent épineux. L'identification des espèces nécessite l'étude de la nervation alaire et celle des genitalia.
It was a beautiful but fateful day on April 7, 2022.
I was finally recovering from my broken tibia, when my kneecap snapped in two. Ow! One step forward...
This is one strange creature. He was only measuring a tiny 10mm but up close he looks pretty cool. I'd love to know what he is? (After a bit of research I think he may be from the Assassin Bug family)
Helina depuncta. (Female).
Length; 6.75mm – 8.25mm.
Found; Males most commonly seen in May to June but females can often be seen until November.
UK Status; Common and widespread in England and Wales but probably under recorded due to difficulty to positively identify.
Habitat; It breeds on cow dung so most commonly encountered around cow pasture.
Grey/brown with fine stripes on the thorax and no patterning on the abdomen. It has red femora and tibia, with yellow-tinted wings and darkened cross-veins. Often found sitting on foliage in the Summer and early Autumn.
Similar to Helina impuncta but among other characteristics there are no elongated presutural acr bristles while H. impuncta has 1 to 3 pairs.
quiero compartir con ustedes este tema es uno de mis favoritos!!
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Alejandro Sanz
Después de pensar,
Después de ver
A mi dolor andar
Sobre el agua del mar
Tibia claridad
Que vi, por mi calle pasar,
Sin saber qué hacer
Si sentir o pensar
Sólo que aún hoy,
Sigo aún, aún hoy, sigo aún
sigo ata...
Atándome a tí.
Aún hoy, mi amor, te doy
Mi cuerpo con alma,
Se esconde del sol (sol)
De noche se escapa de noche
Aún hoy, aún hoy
Te doy,
Mi cuerpo con alma
Aún hoy, aún hoy
(Aún hoy)
Aún hay, aún hay
Qué esconde la noche?
Va a guardar de nosotros dos
O sentir o pensar
Se me llenó de luz,
La noche
Es porque yo vi nadar
Delfines en tu voz
Y sentir sin pensar
Sólo que aún hoy,
Sigo, aún, sigo aún
Aún hoy
Sigo amándote a tí.
Aún hoy, mi amor, aún hoy, mi amor
Aún hay (aún hay)
Dos cuerpos con alma,
Se esconden,
Del sol (sol)
De noche se escapan, de noche, aún hoy
De noche, se dan,
Los cuerpos las almas
Aún hoy, aún hoy
(Aún hoy, aún hay)
Aún hay
Sólo que aún hoy
Sigo aún sigo aún
Aún hoy
Sigo amándote a tí
(Amándote a tí)
Aún hoy, mi amor aún hoy, mi amor
Aún hay, (aún hay)
Dos cuerpos con alma aún hay
Se esconden
Del sol (sol)
De noche se escapan, aún hoy
De noche, (se dan)
Los cuerpos las almas
Aún hoy (aún hay)
Aún hay..... (aún hay...)...
Luces pequeñas,casi apagadas que iluminaron como una llama...mis ilusiones¡ me iluminaron esas palabras de tibias luces..!
Me iluminaron... me dieron vida... y sentí de nuevo en mi alma yerta, casi cerrada,
Well... It looks like a Common Candy-striped spider, but seems to lack the dark terminal ring on the first tibia, So it may be some other Comb-footed Spider like Enoplognatha latimana - redimita form.
But it seems from the little bit of research I've done, the redimita form Enoplognatha ovata lack that dark terminal ring... All very confusing.
Loxley woods
A male European drone fly resting on a bramble leaf in Butter Hill Meadow, a former MOD petrol depot now part of the Chester Zoo estate.
This point of view shows at least three characteristic features (white face with no black stripe, diffuse wing stigmae, dark apex to mid tibia) making ID relatively straightforward.
Bee collecting pollen from the flower. The pollen is collected into the pollen basket or corbicula (visible in the photo - orange "blob"). The pollen basket or corbicula is part of the tibia on the hind legs (Latin "corbicula" is a diminutive of "corbis," a basket). The corbicula is a polished cavity surrounded by a fringe of hairs, into which the bee collects the pollen. A bee moistens the forelegs with its protruding tongue and brushes the pollen that has collected on its head, body and forward appendages to the hind legs. The pollen is transferred to the pollen comb on the hind legs and then combed, pressed, compacted, and transferred to the corbicula on the outside surface of the tibia of the hind legs. Foraging bees bring pollen back to the hive, where they pass it off to other worker bees, who pack the pollen into cells with their heads.
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It's been a wet Spring here in the Northeast. Even though I reminded myself to be careful walking on the wet rocks, nature got me; place foot on angled rock, foot slips off rock, other leg smashes down on said rock and that's how to fracture one's tibia and patella. Adding insult to injury, Doc say I'm not allowed to put any weight on my leg for....12 weeks. Live and learn!
🇫🇷Je ne suis pas certain de son identification, mais il semblerait que ce soit une Punaise du Pin ...: Leptoglossus occidentalis
Corps à dominante brune atteignant 20 mm (hors antennes et pattes). Antennes fines, mobiles, d'environ 12 mm, à quatre articles dont le premier (scape) est légèrement renflé. Tibias des pattes postérieures portant un élargissement aplati de forme ovale.
En cas de danger, Leptoglossus occidentalis peut produire une sécrétion dont l'odeur, selon certains agréable, rappelle quelque peu celle des aiguilles de pin et celle de la pomme.
Si c'est bien son nom , sa piqure ne serait pas dangereuse pour l'homme....
Mais, un guide local français, en voyant la photo, l'a décrit comme dangereux (se).... d'où mon incertitude sur l'identification proposée...Je ne doute pas des connaissances des amis qui vont l'identifier rapidement...
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I'm not sure of its identification, but it seems to be a pine bug...: Leptoglossus occidentalis
Predominantly brown body reaching 20 mm (excluding antennae and legs). Antennae thin, mobile, about 12 mm long, with four articles, the first of which (scape) is slightly bulging. Tibiae of hind legs with a flattened oval enlargement.
In case of danger, Leptoglossus occidentalis can produce a secretion whose odour, according to some agreeable sources, is somewhat reminiscent of pine needles and apples.
If that is its name, its bite is not dangerous to humans....
But, a local French guide, on seeing the photo, described it as dangerous.... hence my doubt about the proposed identification...I don't doubt the knowledge of friends who will identify it quickly
🇫🇷Autre possibilité:
Les réduves sont des hétéroptères (punaises), du grec ancien héteros (différent) et pterón (aile). Ces insectes possèdent en effet des ailes supérieures uniques qui se composent de 2 textures : épaisse et coriace à leur base (proche de la tête) et membraneuse à leur extrémité. Appelées hémélytres, elles se distinguent des élytres qui sont entièrement cornés, rigides et inaptes au vol comme chez le scarabée. Les punaises assassines appartiennent à l’ordre des hémiptères, aux côtés des cigales et des pucerons, insectes se caractérisant par un appareil buccal de type piqueur-suceur. Les réduves sont surnommés punaises assassines car ils se nourrissent de la chair ou du sang de leurs victimes.
🇬🇧 Another possibility:
Reductions are heteropterans (bugs), from the ancient Greek heteros (different) and pterón (wing). These insects have unique upper wings that consist of two textures: thick and leathery at the base (near the head) and membranous at the tip. These are called hemelytra and are distinct from the elytra, which are entirely horny, rigid and flightless as in the beetle. Assassin bugs belong to the order Hemiptera, along with cicadas and aphids, insects characterised by a biting-sucking mouth apparatus. They are called assassin bugs because they feed on the flesh or blood of their victims.
Pour une fois, un Ichneumonidae facile à identifier avec ses tibias tricolores caractéristiques aux pattes arrière.
C'est un endoparasite fréquent des larves de syrphes qui se reproduit par parthénogénèse (les œufs sont issus d’ovules non fécondés). Les adultes se nourrissent du nectar des fleurs, d’ombellifères notamment, tandis que les larves se nourrissent des œufs et larves d’autres insectes qu’elles parasitent.
Espèce commune largement répandue en Europe.
For once, an Ichneumonidae that is easy to identify with its characteristic tricoloured tibiae on its hind legs.
It is a common endoparasite of hoverfly larvae that reproduces by parthenogenesis (the eggs are produced from unfertilised ovules). Adults feed on flower nectar, particularly from umbellifers, while larvae feed on the eggs and larvae of other insects that they parasitise.
A common species widely distributed throughout Europe.
Empis tessellata
"9-12mm. This is the largest of the genus. It is a bristly fly with brown-tinged wings. It has black femora but the tibia and tarsi may be red/brown.
"Similar Species: Empis opaca is another large Empis4 bristles on the scutellum; prosternum hairy all over (located under the thorax, between the head and front coxa)
"Habitat: It frequents hedges, woodland edges, gardens and shrubby habitats. Particularly common on Hogweed and other umbellifer flowers.
"When to see it: April to August.
"Life History: Though it feeds on nectar it is also a predator and catches other insects using its long pointed proboscis to pierce their bodies. Males of E. opaca and E. tessellata present a 'gift' to the female, in the form of a dead insect, before mating takes place. Females will not mate with males who do not present a gift."
A lake of mild waters between the small towns of Cañete and Contulmo, Chile.
Un lago de aguas tibias entre los pueblos de Cañete y Contulmo, Chile.
An exciting moment finding my first female funnel web, a couple of summers ago.
The link to an image of her in defensive position is included below.
45 mm body length
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Exciting development in the world of arachnology, and on my doorstep as it were. Six years ago almost to the day, I came across my first Sydney funnel web. This is the time of year that males will be wandering in search of the females and I'd learned of several very large specimens having been found within a 25km radius of where I live.
Scientific examination (gene sequences, in combination with fine morphological detail) has shown that Atrax in this area are indeed a new species and have been named Atrax christenseni. The new species is named in honour of Kane Christensen for his dedication to documenting aspects of funnel web behaviour and collecting specimens for study. So, I have to amend my records of sightings. (Males of this new species can be separated from the Sydney funnel web and the Southern Sydney funnel web by the extra-long palpal tibia and embolus).
Sadly, our eight-legged icon is in decline. Loss of habitat and illegal trafficking being cited as probable main causes. For this reason, collection sites were not included in research papers.
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Machimus atricapillus
"Description
Generally larger and greyer than M. cingulatus with a more strongly marked abdomen. There are also differences in details of the antennae and genitalia. The front tibia are largely red and lack the black bands seen in other Machimus species.
"Similar Species
Males of this species are readily distinguished by the projecting tab on the last segment which bears a tuft of black hairs. The tab normally has a forked apex resembling a kite's tail. Both males and females can be separated from the similar M. cingulatus and M. coweni by the colour and patterns on the front tibia and femora. See Identification Aids below.
"Habitat
It can be found in a variety of habitats, especially scrubby grassland and woodland edge. It prefers light soils but is not as strongly associated with sandy soils as the similar M. cingulatus.
"When to see it
Most likely to be encountered in summer.
"Life History
Adults are predatory on many other species of flies and other insects. The larvae are presumed to develop as predators in soil.
"UK Status
Widespread and fairly frequent in England and Wales, particularly in the south."